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Boot Sector Virus?
    Summary: Hello, I bought a 60gb Maxtor hard drive several months ago. I have been using it as a backup drive. I have just tried to install windows 98 on it so ...

DVD drive - Master Boot virus?
    Summary: Rebuilding your boot sector is easy, start up with a Windows 98 boot disk and at the A: prompt type in 'fdisk /mbr' (no quotes) and press enter. That...

Boot Sector Cleaning??
    Summary: I searched the archives, but couldnt find this one. I have a 40gb Western Digital and 80gb IBM drives, that i suspect may have viruses in the boot sec...

bios boots only to default
    Summary: I have checked for viruses in safe mode, also with networking and online scans...nothing. My bios has been reflashed and successfully updated, but pro...

HDD boot sector corrupt
    Summary: On my other PC, P2 350MHz 400+MB ram, 3GB & 15GB HDD, the 3GB HDD seems to be giving me a problem with booting, I fdisked, deleted the partiton, refor...

Fail to boot from HD.
    Summary: Always a good old standby to try... Boot up with your floppy, and at prompt, type FDISK /MBR This will rewrite the master boot record to the C: drive,...

please help boot
    Summary: Try downloading a boot disk here: http://www.pcmedixwebs.com/ubd.htm Then use it to start up. If it still complains about removing media, shut it off ...

Dell Optiplex GX200 Can't Boot
    Summary: There could be a number of things that are causing this. The two that leap to mind are: a boot sector virus that could have infected both systems by s...

Bad Sectors discovered
    Summary: Just the reporting of bad sectors doesnt always mean there are bad sectors. Most disk scanning programs mark sectors bad when they determine data cann...

repeated boot area problems
    Summary: repeated boot area problems my drive shows the following problem everytime it does scandisk : " This drive's boot area contains important information ...

No Boot Sector
    Summary: I was given this good old boy and it did not have any ram so I installed a pair of 32s hard to find it now boots up. And all I get is a message of "n...

hard drive problem/virus
    Summary: hello, i posted on the win9x forums and didnt seem to get much help and now that im hoping to get some help here because im pretty sure its a hardware...

Boot sector suddenly invalid!
    Summary: Nothing seems to get my Compaq LTE 5100 to recognize that the CD drive is a boot drive. The need to use my CD drive to boot was brought about when, a...

Invalid Boot Diskette ERROR
    Summary: I do quite a bit of PC Troubleshooting and other Tech help for several neighbors given I do this as a side business. One of my neighbors called me wi...

BIOS virus
    Summary: If the Bios flash doesn't do the trick then you're going to have to Low level format your Hard Drive. If it's a Boot Sector Virus, regular formatting ...

data from hdd with no boot sector
    Summary: Hi guys, i recently had linux and windows xp running dual boot using GRUB. i removed grub, not realizing that would delete my boot sector. i have si...

Drives missing
    Summary: Hi Dagny CDROM MISSING IN WINDOWS 1. No CDROM listed in Device Manager or My Computer 2. Device Manager shows yellow ! on Hard Disk Controllers 3. Per...

Can't detect HDD bu ok in Safe mode
    Summary: Had a hdd crash. Starts up ok in safe mode but cant start in normal mode. Just comes up with errors on a blue screen. Now trying to format the disk. B...

compaq prolinea 4/50 wont accept os
    Summary: Try clearing the CMOS and then setup the BIOS again. Take the Hard Drive to another computer and use an updated anti-virus program to scan the hard d...

Recovering a hard drive
    Summary: I've recently lost a hard-drive to what I suspect may be a boot-sector virus. The information appears to still be there when I try to repair the windo...

Installation Problems
    Summary: i have had this problem twice, the errors in my case were: Faulty RAM Boot Sector Virus If you can find some spare RAM from somewhere, that problem c...

98SE freezes during setup
    Summary: The first thing I suspect is that there may be a boot sector virus on the hard drive. After booting up with the Startup floppy type in 'fdisk /mbr' (...

Verfying DMI pool data freeze
    Summary: I had this problem once in windows ME. Like to ask you though: >>>did you connect to the internet after the hard disk installation? If so, your Pc mi...

Keyboard quits
    Summary: I posted this in the software section but then realized it may be more appropriate in this forum: I've got a problem that's driving me nuts. A friends...

about bios
    Summary: Just a thought, boot sector virus. Have you completely deleted the existing BOOT partition, then created a new one? (as with FDISK) Then REBOOT, FORMA...

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